# `com.alexandria-archive/archive` on anlyon.dev

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- Page: https://anlyon.dev/servers/com.alexandria-archive/archive
- JSON: https://anlyon.dev/api/v1/servers/com.alexandria-archive/archive
- Version: 1.1.0 (active)
- Publisher: com.alexandria-archive (domain proven to the MCP Registry)
- Runs: remote (streamable-http)
- Sign-in to list tools: none
- Metadata from the official MCP Registry, synced 2026-10-21T17:48:55.876Z

Title and description, as the publisher wrote them:

```untrusted-server-text
Alexandria Archive
History of Alexandria, Egypt: search the archive, read articles, find events and prints.
```

Scanned 2026-10-21T18:45:53.553Z over streamable-http.

**8 tools: 8 only read.**

| Group | Class | Tools | Claude Code |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Deletes or cancels | destructive | 0 | deny |
| Can't be undone | irreversible | 0 | ask |
| Changes things | write | 0 | ask |
| Only reads | read | 8 | allow |

## Findings

No check matched anything in these tool definitions.


## Only reads (8)

Looks things up and changes nothing. Claude Code: allow.

### `get_article`

- The name "get_article" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch one published article by numeric id — returns full markdown text in Arabic and English plus metadata.
```

### `get_institution`

- The name "get_institution" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Fetch a single institution by its slug — description, history, contact details, and a sample of its published archive items with canonical URLs. Use this to answer questions about a specific institution's holdings, or to find items available for licensing.
```

### `get_licensing_info`

- The name "get_licensing_info" says "get": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Explain how an image or document from the Alexandria Archive may be reused or licensed (publication, broadcast, commercial use), and where the request is made. Pass itemId for one archive record; omit it for the general terms.
```

### `list_institutions`

- The name "list_institutions" says "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List museums, libraries, archives and other institutions that publish their collections on the Alexandria Archive. Returns name, type, item count and canonical URL.
```

### `list_recent_articles`

- The name "list_recent_articles" says "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List the most recently published articles (id, title, excerpt, date, URL).
```

### `list_store_products`

- The name "list_store_products" says "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List products on sale in the Alexandria Archive's store — prints, books and gifts about the city — with price in Egyptian pounds and the product page. Sales support the archive.
```

### `list_upcoming_events`

- The name "list_upcoming_events" says "list": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
List the Alexandria Archive's upcoming events — heritage walks, workshops, talks — soonest first, with date, place, price in Egyptian pounds (or free) and the page where a person books a seat. Use for questions like 'what is on in Alexandria this week' or 'a history walk in Alexandria'.
```

### `search_archive`

- The name "search_archive" says "search": a word for reading.

Description, as the server wrote it:

```untrusted-server-text
Search historical photographs, documents, maps, articles, and events of the Alexandria Archive. Query can be Arabic or English (e.g. 'Stanley Bridge', 'كوم الدكة'). Returns titles and canonical URLs.
```

## Claude Code permissions

For `.claude/settings.json`, assuming the server is installed as `archive`:

```json
{
  "permissions": {
    "allow": [
      "mcp__archive__search_archive",
      "mcp__archive__get_article",
      "mcp__archive__list_recent_articles",
      "mcp__archive__list_institutions",
      "mcp__archive__get_institution",
      "mcp__archive__list_upcoming_events",
      "mcp__archive__list_store_products",
      "mcp__archive__get_licensing_info"
    ],
    "ask": [],
    "deny": []
  }
}
```